HOUSTON – The impression of a State Championship might be measured in some ways.
For Kingwood Park’s Lexi Shannon she has back-to-back titles to her identify. A pair of gold medals that may grasp on her wall and banners that may don the partitions of her highschool for years to come back.
However the final impression of her success paired with former teammate and fellow State Champion Maddie Sandquist is already being felt by this system.
“Final yr we solely had 4 ladies and after Maddie and I gained, we had 18 ladies,” Shannon mentioned. “It was simply actually cool. Most of them stayed with us by means of the season and simply rising this system. Getting ladies to have an interest and are available wrestle and win their first matches. It is nice to see and assist the game of girls’s wrestling.
“I feel our program goes to develop much more. It is actually cool to go away a legacy behind.”
On Saturday, contained in the Berry Heart, Shannon put the cap on her highschool profession with one other gold.
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Shannon entered the 2022 UIL State Wrestling meet with an general file of 47-0. Within the two-day occasion she defeated Caelyn Gaddy (Frisco Independence), Jaycee Portee (Lubbock Monterey), Leilani Sanchez (El Paso Andress) and Samyra Thomas (Houston Kashmere) all by pin to finish the proper season.
Together with her 51-0 file, over the previous two seasons, Shannon finishes with an general mark of 82-2 and a pair of Class 5A- 215-pound state titles.
“Not everybody can say they’re a state champion, particularly in Texas,” Shannon mentioned on what this run will imply in years to come back. “And in girl’s wrestling, that’s simply so cool. I feel it’ll imply as a lot then because it does now.”